Washington State Bans Words Like Penmanship And Policeman And Other Liberal Idiocy

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To say that the word "master" is inherently racist is to assume that the word suddenly appeared in the 1800s with no context. It also ignores the other meanings of the word, such as proficiency (to master a skill, or to be a master of it), command (master of a ship), education (a master is a teacher, hence master's degree) or primacy (such as a master disk, which is copied, or a master suite, which is the primary suite). Slavery goes back to the first human societies, and was not racial (tribes enslaved each other long before there were nations), so the term's connotations should offend anyone descended from slaves, which pretty much includes everybody in the world. This all sounds rather masturbatory, to me, or can I no longer say that?

To say that the word "master" is inherently racist is to assume that the word suddenly appeared in the 1800s with no context. It also ignores the other meanings of the word, such as proficiency (to master a skill, or to be a master of it), command (master of a ship), education (a master is a teacher, hence master's degree) or primacy (such as a master disk, which is copied, or a master suite, which is the primary suite). Slavery goes back to the first human societies, and was not racial (tribes enslaved each other long before there were nations), so the term's connotations should offend anyone descended from slaves, which pretty much includes everybody in the world. This all sounds rather masturbatory, to me, or can I no longer say that?

Mobil Oil issued a memo instructing us to stop referring to terminals as master and slave. That was in 1992.

Policeman and police woman. It doesn't work so well with "fire" though, since "fire woman" would kind of imply that she is some type of pagan priestess.

I've actually wondered what you would call a guy who writes parking tickets, since we always call people who do that "meter maids". I have yet to see a male performing that task.

The master bedroom thing is both stupid and funny. Does that mean the term "masturbation" is racist?

I would have thought you old enough to have seen all male police departments where the only fellow on the block was the beat cop and he wrote plenty of parking tickets each and every day. The presence and activity of "meter maids" is relatively a new thing.

Try "fire fighter", that's the common term today and there is not a thing wrong with it.

PC has gone berserk.

Ody - I caught that same act in Tulsa a few years back.

It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi

Originally Posted by Carol

When I judge someone's integrity one key thing I look at is - How does s/he treat people s/he doesn't agree with or does not like?
I can respect someone who I do not agree with, but I have NO respect for someone who puts others down in a public forum. That is the hallmark of someone who has no integrity, and cannot be trusted.

I would have thought you old enough to have seen all male police departments where the only fellow on the block was the beat cop and he wrote plenty of parking tickets each and every day. The presence and activity of "meter maids" is relatively a new thing.

Try "fire fighter", that's the common term today and there is not a thing wrong with it.

PC has gone berserk.

Ody - I caught that same act in Tulsa a few years back.

"Lovely Rita" came out in 1967, 3 years after I was born. We had meter maids in Grand Rapids and in Detroit, and in Kentwood, parking was free.

I can't recall. No one did it anyway. Eventually the situation was overcome by events.

Then hopefully, this too shall pass. In the meantime, it warrants relentless ridicule, as a warning to other PC tools in order to prevent future generations of personagers (can't have managers, now can we?) from imposing their attempts to castrate the language.

Originally Posted by Retread

Ody - I caught that same act in Tulsa a few years back.

Yeah, it was a great act, but it took a while for my eyebrows to grow back.